Brandi Berry Benson dug deep into her genealogy for a new work that draws from American Indian musical traditions.

An curved arrow pointing right. The Sitarmakers of Miraj, India, have been crafting musical instruments out of pumpkins for almost 200 years. They are known for making the tanpura, a string ...

"Ukelin" is one of the more common trade names of a type of stringed musical instrument marketed from the early 1920s until about 1965. Ukelins combine two sets of strings, one group of sixteen ...

To my pleasant surprise, Manu gifted me an iktara, a stringed drone lute. We have fond memories of our brief sojourn in ...

Many factors contributed, including a general economic downturn, a defunding of school music programs, a changing demographic as boomers turned away from musical hobbies and an increase in ...

Beyond compositions, Khusrau is also associated with the evolution of important Indian musical instruments ... which evolved ...

So, let's pack our bags as we travel around the globe to learn about musical instruments of the world. A sitar is a string instrument that comes from Northern India. It's quite a large instrument ...